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Hi, I am sorry I was unexpectedly busy in the recent period, but if I am willing to host Annual addition with Finale mid May if that is still okay with you guys.

Milano-Cortina 2026 Quota Simulation: 2024-25 Data Edition Hello fellow Totallympians and welcome to another quota simulation. This time, the focus has shifted over to the winter Olympics. There's still a ski mountaineering world cup and some a few world championships to go but I thought I would post this while everyone is still in winter sports mode. I'll post minor updates if any data changes over the next month but I don't there'll be many changes. There's a few things to note before we begin. Total # of NOC's Overall, we have a total of 88 NOC's that are qualified/projected to qualify for the Olympics. This would represent a decrease of 4 NOC's from the 91 nations in Beijing although Russia and Belarus were competing separately then. On the other hand, with Russia/Belarus being limited to how many sports and how many athletes they can qualify, many of the major winter sports nations are projected to have their largest team ever. Russian/Belarusian athletes Speaking of Russia and Belarus, they are included in this simulation and just like in 2024, it was very annoying to factor them in considering they didn't compete in competitions in the last year at all (besides ski mountaineering). I've only included these athletes in the skating sports and ski mountaineering. The ISU has already announced a pathway for Russian/Belarusian athletes to qualify and neutral athletes are already competing in the ski mountaineering competitions. Russia was easy to simulate since it was safe to assume that one athlete would qualify in each event. Belarus was a bit harder and involved me looking at individual times/scores for their athletes this year. At the end of the day, I decided to include Belarusians in women's singles and pairs for figure skating and the men's 500m & 1000m along with all of the women's events in speed skating. All of the women's speed skating events may be a bit too generous but that was how it was in 2022. Total # of athletes In total, 2874 athletes are projected to qualify from this simulation. This is despite the athlete cap being at 2900. There are a few reasons for this discrepancy. Bobsleigh: Only 162 of the maximum 170 quotas were used. Curling: Only 109 of the maximum 120 quotas were used. This is due to certain players being simulated to play in both the mixed doubles and 4 person events resulting in them taking up two quotas. Figure Skating: The additional 5 quotas allowed for the team event were used here. After simulating the final qualifying event, only Canada, France, Georgia, Italy and the USA had full teams so I gave an additional quotas to Great Britain in men's singles, Japan in ice dance, and South Korea in Pairs. Freestyle Skiing: Only 277 quotas were used here compared to the maximum 284 quotas. The women's halfpipe looks like it will have trouble filling up their 25 quotas as only 23 quotas were used and I believe 5 athletes simulated currently do not have the required amount of FIS points to be eligible. Men's aerials and women's ski cross originally had enough athletes to fill up the allotted quota. However, Canada and the USA were over the maximum limit so after simulating rejected quotas, those events didn't have enough athletes to fill the allotted quotas and women's aerials just made it. Henry Sildaru (EST) is also projected to qualify in both men's halfpipe and slopestyle/big air. Luge: Only 105 of the maximum 106 quotas were used here because Wolfgang Kindl (AUT) is projected to qualify in both men's singles and men's doubles Snowboarding: Only 237 of the maximum 238 quotas were used here. Cody Winters (USA) is projected to qualify in both PGS and snowboard cross. In addition, there are also 3 athletes expected to compete in multiple sports: Phillip Bellingham (AUS) in cross-country skiing and ski mountaineering, Ester Ledecka (CZE) in alpine skiing, and snowboarding, and Arianna Fontana (ITA) in short track and speed skating. Please let me know if there's any other possible athletes that could also be in this list. Internal qualification procedures Internal qualification procedures for countries like the Netherlands and New Zealand WERE NOT taken into account this time for the sole reason because it's fun seeing the Netherlands have an athlete in Nordic Combined Differences from the FIS quota simulations If you have a look at the FIS quota simulations on their webpages for alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, freestyle skiing, and snowboarding, you'll notice there are some differences. Alpine Skiing: NOC's with a man or woman that hasn't qualified yet were taken into account. If the athlete hasn't had the required amount of races to qualify but is averaging the necessary amount of points to qualify, I simulated them as qualified (e.g. Morocco). Cross-Country Skiing: FIS only simulated 138 quotas in each gender. I reallocated the remaining 10 quotas per gender based on the Olympic nations' ranking. There is a clause that if an unqualified NOC scores 300 points or less in a world cup race next season, they can qualify. However, that is very unlikely to happen (unless Russia and Belarus are invited back) since there are already athletes from qualified NOC's competing in World Cup races that get lapped. Freestyle Skiing: I took into account Canada and the USA rejecting quotas since they were both initially over the 32 athlete quota limit. I had Canada rejecting 2 quotas in women's aerials, 1 each per gender in moguls, 1 in men's halfpipe, and 2 in men's slopestyle/big air. I had the USA rejecting 1 quota in men's aerials, 1 in men's ski cross, and 2 in women's ski cross. Snowboard: Two athletes in women's snowboard cross were not eligible to qualify and were replaced with athletes on the reserve list that were eligible. Speaking of athlete eligibility, there were some athletes that were simulated by FIS that didn't meet eligiblity requirements. I decided that if there was an eligible athlete on the reserve list, then the ineligible athlete would be replaced but if there wasn't an eligible athlete on the reserve list, I would keep the ineligible athlete in the quota list (e.g. Vanuatu in freeski halfpipe). Anyways, that's enough talking. Let's begin! The numbers in brackets represent the change from the NOC's athlete total at Beijing 2022. Please comment if you have any questions, thoughts or observations. Africa (7 nations) Eritrea: 1 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 1) Kenya: 2 (+2) (Alpine Skiing - 2) Madagascar: 2 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 2) Morocco: 1 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 1) Nigeria: 1 (0) (Cross-Country Skiing - 1) South Africa: 3 (+3) (Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 1, Freestyle Skiing - 1) Togo: 1 (+1) (Alpine Skiing - 1) Americas (12 nations) Argentina: 8 (+2) (Alpine Skiing - 3, Cross-Country Skiing - 4, Luge - 1) Bolivia: 1 (-1) (Cross-Country Skiing - 1) Brazil: 15 (+5) (Alpine Skiing - 4, Biathlon - 1, Bobsleigh - 4, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Short Track - 1, Skeleton - 1, Snowboarding - 1) Canada: 205 (-10) (Alpine Skiing - 11, Biathlon - 8, Bobsleigh - 14, Cross-Country Skiing - 13, Curling - 11, Figure Skating - 12, Freestyle Skiing - 32, Ice Hockey - 48, Luge - 6, Short Track - 10, Skeleton - 2, Ski Jumping - 3, Ski Mountaineering - 2, Snowboarding - 20, Speed Skating - 13) Chile: 4 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 1, Freestyle Skiing - 1) Colombia: 2 (-1) (Cross-Country Skiing - 1, Skeleton - 1) Haiti: 2 (+1) (Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 1) Jamaica: 2 (-5) (Alpine Skiing - 1, Bobsleigh - 1) Mexico: 3 (-1) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 1) Puerto Rico: 1 (-1) (Skeleton - 1) Trinidad and Tobago: 2 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 2) United States: 223 (-1) (Alpine Skiing - 19, Biathlon - 8, Bobsleigh - 14, Cross-Country Skiing - 16, Curling - 6, Figure Skating - 18, Freestyle Skiing - 32, Ice Hockey - 48, Luge - 11, Nordic Combined - 2, Short Track - 4, Skeleton - 4, Ski Jumping - 7, Snowboarding - 23, Speed Skating - 11) Asia (18 nations) China: 115 (-67) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 3, Bobsleigh - 8, Cross-Country Skiing - 6, Curling - 10, Figure Skating - 1, Freestyle Skiing - 24, Luge - 6, Nordic Combined - 2, Short Track - 10, Skeleton - 5, Ski Jumping - 6, Ski Mountaineering - 2, Snowboarding - 16, Speed Skating - 14) Hong Kong: 2 (-1) (Alpine Skiing - 1, Short Track - 1) India: 2 (+1) (Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 1) Iran: 3 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 2) Japan: 124 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 3, Biathlon - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 7, Curling - 7, Figure Skating - 10, Freestyle Skiing - 20, Ice Hockey - 23, Luge - 1, Nordic Combined - 3, Short Track - 9, Ski Jumping - 7, Snowboarding - 20, Speed Skating - 13) Kazakhstan: 43 (+9) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 3, Cross-Country Skiing - 8, Figure Skating - 2, Freestyle Skiing - 12, Nordic Combined - 1, Short Track - 8, Ski Jumping - 3, Speed Skating - 4) Kyrgyzstan: 2 (+1) (Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 1) Lebanon: 1 (-2) (Alpine Skiing - 1) Malaysia: 1 (-1) (Alpine Skiing - 1) Mongolia: 2 (0) (Cross-Country Skiing - 2) Philippines: 2 (+1) (Alpine Skiing - 2) Saudi Arabia: 2 (+1) (Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 1) Singapore: 1 (+1) (Alpine Skiing - 1) South Korea: 62 (-2) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 2, Bobsleigh - 4, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Curling - 5, Figure Skating - 8, Freestyle Skiing - 5, Luge - 1, Short Track - 10, Skeleton - 1, Snowboarding - 11, Speed Skating - 10) Taiwan: 6 (+2) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 2, Skeleton - 1, Speed Skating - 1) Thailand: 4 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 1, Bobsleigh - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 1) United Arab Emirates: 1 (+1) (Alpine Skiing - 1) Uzbekistan: 3 (+2) (Alpine Skiing - 1, Figure Skating - 2) Europe (47 nations) Albania: 3 (+1) (Alpine Skiing - 3) Andorra: 6 (+1) (Alpine Skiing - 4, Cross-Country Skiing - 2) Armenia: 3 (-3) (Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 2) Austria: 109 (+3) (Alpine Skiing - 22, Biathlon - 9, Bobsleigh - 8, Cross-Country Skiing - 8, Figure Skating - 1, Freestyle Skiing - 13, Luge - 11, Nordic Combined - 3, Short Track - 1, Skeleton - 4, Ski Jumping - 8, Ski Mountaineering - 2, Snowboarding - 17, Speed Skating - 2) Azerbaijan: 1 (-1) (Figure Skating - 1) Belgium: 32 (+13) (Alpine Skiing - 4, Biathlon - 8, Bobsleigh - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 1, Figure Skating - 2, Short Track - 5, Skeleton - 1, Ski Mountaineering - 1, Snowboarding - 1, Speed Skating - 7) Bosnia and Herzegovina: 5 (-1) (Alpine Skiing - 3, Cross-Country Skiing - 1, Luge - 1) Bulgaria: 19 (+3) (Alpine Skiing - 3, Biathlon - 8, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Figure Skating - 1, Ski Jumping - 1, Snowboarding - 3) Croatia: 14 (+3) (Alpine Skiing - 6, Biathlon - 3, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Short Track - 2) Cyprus: 2 (+1) (Alpine Skiing - 2) Czech Republic: 123 (+10) (Alpine Skiing - 6, Biathlon - 10, Bobsleigh - 10, Cross-Country Skiing - 13, Curling - 5, Figure Skating - 4, Freestyle Skiing - 5, Ice Hockey - 48, Nordic Combined - 2, Short Track - 2, Skeleton - 1, Ski Jumping - 5, Snowboarding - 9, Speed Skating - 4) Denmark: 40 (-22) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 2, Bobsleigh - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 1, Curling - 5, Ice Hockey - 25, Skeleton - 2, Speed Skating - 2) Estonia: 31 (+5) (Alpine Skiing - 3, Biathlon - 8, Cross-Country Skiing - 8, Curling - 2, Figure Skating - 2, Freestyle Skiing - 2, Nordic Combined - 2, Skeleton - 1, Ski Jumping - 2, Speed Skating - 1) Finland: 102 (+7) (Alpine Skiing - 5, Biathlon - 10, Cross-Country Skiing - 16, Figure Skating - 5, Freestyle Skiing - 8, Ice Hockey - 48, Luge - 1, Nordic Combined - 2, Ski Jumping - 5, Snowboarding - 2) France: 152 (+66) (Alpine Skiing - 17, Biathlon - 12, Bobsleigh - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 15, Figure Skating - 10, Freestyle Skiing - 18, Ice Hockey - 48, Nordic Combined - 2, Short Track - 3, Skeleton - 1, Ski Jumping - 6, Ski Mountaineering - 4, Snowboarding - 10, Speed Skating - 4) Georgia: 8 (-1) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Figure Skating - 6) Germany: 188 (+39) (Alpine Skiing - 11, Biathlon - 11, Bobsleigh - 18, Cross-Country Skiing - 14, Curling - 5, Figure Skating - 6, Freestyle Skiing - 11, Ice Hockey - 48, Luge - 12, Nordic Combined - 3, Short Track - 1, Skeleton - 6, Ski Jumping - 7, Ski Mountaineering - 3, Snowboarding - 19, Speed Skating - 13) Great Britain: 55 (+5) (Alpine Skiing - 3, Bobsleigh - 10, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Curling - 10, Figure Skating - 8, Freestyle Skiing - 7, Short Track - 3, Skeleton - 5, Snowboarding - 5) Greece: 5 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 3) Hungary: 16 (+2) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 4, Figure Skating - 2, Short Track - 5, Snowboarding - 2, Speed Skating - 1) Iceland: 4 (-1) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 2) Ireland: 6 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 2, Luge - 1, Short Track - 1) Israel: 5 (-1) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Figure Skating - 2, Skeleton - 1) Italy: 193 (+75) (Alpine Skiing - 21, Biathlon - 10, Bobsleigh - 10, Cross-Country Skiing - 13, Curling - 10, Figure Skating - 11, Freestyle Skiing - 10, Ice Hockey - 48, Luge - 10, Nordic Combined - 2, Short Track - 10, Skeleton - 3, Ski Jumping - 7, Ski Mountaineering - 3, Snowboarding - 16, Speed Skating - 10) Kosovo: 2 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 2) Latvia: 70 (+13) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 8, Bobsleigh - 9, Cross-Country Skiing - 7, Figure Skating - 3, Ice Hockey - 25, Luge - 11, Short Track - 2, Skeleton - 3) Liechtenstein: 4 (+2) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 2) Lithuania: 17 (+4) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 8, Cross-Country Skiing - 4, Figure Skating - 3) Luxembourg: 2 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 2) Malta: 1 (0) (Cross-Country Skiing - 1) Moldova: 4 (-1) (Biathlon - 4) Monaco: 5 (+2) (Alpine Skiing - 1, Bobsleigh - 4) Montenegro: 2 (-1) (Alpine Skiing - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 1) Netherlands: 43 (+2) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Bobsleigh - 4, Figure Skating - 2, Freestyle Skiing - 1, Nordic Combined - 1, Short Track - 10, Skeleton - 1, Snowboarding - 4, Speed Skating - 18) North Macedonia*: 3 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 1) Norway: 91 (+7) (Alpine Skiing - 18, Biathlon - 11, Cross-Country Skiing - 16, Curling - 11, Freestyle Skiing - 5, Nordic Combined - 3, Ski Jumping - 8, Ski Mountaineering - 3, Snowboarding - 4, Speed Skating - 12) Poland: 59 (+2) (Alpine Skiing - 3, Biathlon - 8, Bobsleigh - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 7, Figure Skating - 4, Luge - 6, Nordic Combined - 2, Short Track - 7, Ski Jumping - 5, Ski Mountaineering - 2, Snowboarding - 4, Speed Skating - 9) Portugal: 3 (+7) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 1) Romania: 31 (+10) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 6, Bobsleigh - 8, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Figure Skating - 1, Luge - 8, Ski Jumping - 2, Snowboarding - 1) Serbia: 4 (+2) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 2) Slovakia: 50 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 6, Bobsleigh - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Figure Skating - 1, Ice Hockey - 25, Luge - 6, Ski Jumping - 1, Ski Mountaineering - 3, Snowboarding - 1) Slovenia: 41 (-3) (Alpine Skiing - 10, Biathlon - 9, Cross-Country Skiing - 8, Nordic Combined - 2, Ski Jumping - 7, Snowboarding - 5) Spain: 17 (+3) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Bobsleigh - 1, Cross-Country Skiing - 3, Figure Skating - 3, Ski Mountaineering - 4, Snowboarding - 4) Sweden: 117 (+1) (Alpine Skiing - 12, Biathlon - 12, Cross-Country Skiing - 16, Curling - 10, Figure Skating - 1, Freestyle Skiing - 15, Ice Hockey - 48, Luge - 2, Snowboarding - 1) Switzerland: 10 (+13) (Alpine Skiing - 22, Biathlon - 10, Bobsleigh - 16, Cross-Country Skiing - 13, Curling - 10, Figure Skating - 3, Freestyle Skiing - 22, Ice Hockey - 48, Luge - 1, Nordic Combined - 2, Skeleton - 3, Ski Jumping - 4, Ski Mountaineering - 4, Snowboarding - 19, Speed Skating - 3) Türkiye: 7 (0) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Cross-Country Skiing - 2, Short Track - 1, Ski Jumping - 2) Ukraine: 46 (+1) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 10, Cross-Country Skiing - 6, Figure Skating - 1, Freestyle Skiing - 8, Luge - 8, Nordic Combined - 2, Short Track - 2, Skeleton - 1, Ski Jumping - 4, Snowboarding - 2) Oceania (3 nations) Australia: 53 (+9) (Alpine Skiing - 2, Biathlon - 1, Bobsleigh - 8, Cross-Country Skiing - 8, Curling - 2, Figure Skating - 2, Freestyle Skiing - 13, Luge - 1, Short Track - 2, Skeleton - 1, Ski Mountaineering - 2, Snowboarding - 12) New Zealand: 21 (+6) (Alpine Skiing - 4, Freestyle Skiing - 11, Snowboarding - 5, Speed Skating - 1) Vanuatu: 1 (+1) (Freestyle Skiing - 1) Other (1 nation) Individual Neutral Athletes: 23 (Figure Skating - 9, Short Track - 2, Ski Mountaineering - 1, Speed Skating - 11)

Meanwhile, there is apparently a swimmer named Autumn McIntosh Ward, McIntosh Lead Group Of Fast Swimmers At Missouri Valley Age Group Championships Now we just need a Spring McIntosh and a Winter McIntosh to complete the full set.

I'm in tears, finally I have access after months. For some reason I can only enter the site from my phone. Surely it must be a problem with my home internet connection.

Totallympics wont and cant die. 14 years old tradition, with established users, Sindo wont give up, i'm sure. Same drop in posts happened after London, after Rio, after Tokyo. Nothing to worry about. Totallympics is strong as it ever was.

Biedermann's super-suited world record is gone! Lukas Märtens Throws Down 3:39.96 WORLD RECORD In 400 Free, Breaking 2009 Super-Suited Mark

Might be wront because I'm transcribing while watching live (while also being on a work meeting) 50m events in all strokes 12 women's teams in water polo Compound (!) mixed team event archery 4x100m mixed relay in athletics Mixed race walk relay removed 12 teams in 3x3 basketball 7 men's and women's events in boxing Football will have 16 women's teams and 12 men's teams Mixed team event in golf Mixed artistic gymnastics team event (!) Coastal rowing is three events (men's, women's, mixed double sculls), removing lightweight rowing NO MORE COMBINED IN CLIMBING! Speed, boulder and lead are all different events Mixed team event in table tennis (in addition to mixed doubles? O.o) 10500 athlete quota only applies to core sports for LA More women's quotas than men's quotas overall

Well now's time for a little summary of my experience attending Stop 1. Overall it was a nice experience, my first time visiting that venue in particular. It brought me some memories from my time at 2011 PanAm Games, seeing athletes from many countries. Now the venue is kind of dated, and it really needs some serious maintenance. For me it was unacceptable that the restrooms for the general public were in poor conditions, and also some sections need a fresh layer of paint, not to mention the heavy layer of dust in the ceiling. Thank God no debris fall in to the pool or on the spectators, but you may see a couple of pigeons continually flying around the swimming complex, even disrupting Mark Hrytsenko's last dive in 10m platform, before being sent away by Ruslan Ternovoi. there was a pretty large number of Chinese fans on Saturday that came to support their team with flags & banners; however, their overall conduct was very poor, most of them crossing into the "top section" denying people who paid those tickets their rightful seats, ignoring and even shoving the few security elements at the venue and disrupting the general silence by replaying videos with loud sound or standing to take pictures while the divers were competing. Not that the Mexican fans were better; at times they were very disrespectful, particularly with divers preceding local competitors, since the cheered very loudly, ignoring the results (whether bad or good) of the former. Among my personal highlights was the fact I had the opportunity to meet the Cuevas twins, who won a silver in 3m synchro and with only 14 are considered our next big stars in this sport, and also two time Olympic medalist in 10m synchro Alejandra Orozco, who was very active during the event, often oversawing and helping in any way needed, not to mention very kind and attentive to anyone asking for a photo. Also in attendance was Olympic figure skater Donovan Carrillo, whom I also asked for a photo. I had an opportunity to see Maddison Keeney at the small cafeteria after winning a bronze in 3m synchro; she was very polite and gracious, accepting to take photos even when she needed to take a break and finish her sandwich; that same day I ran into Moritz Wesemann on my way back to my seat after getting a beer, and on the last day I almost bumped into Jack Laugher (he was going "incognito" mode while trying to decide what to grab from the food carts outside the main building). So in general, I had a pleasant experience and would love to attend another event in the future. To top it off, there was a brief take of me during Sunday's men's 3m finals on WA stories, which of course I've already downloaded for keeps. I hope to find some time to upload some of the pictures I took; not the ones with me & above mentioned athletes since I'm not to photogenic, but of the few photos of the competition and the practice time that I find are worthy.

Bronze for our women’s team at the HSBC SVNS stop in Singapore!

https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/cx2xed9mxveo From this article it appears we will know the LA 2028 event program on... April 9th...

by this time I think even Trump will not be allowed to enter the USA neither

Team Homan win back-to-back golds at the Women’s Curling World Championships, defeating Switzerland 7-3 in the final!

Gold for Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard at the Tbilisi GS!

Evan Dunfee sets the world record in the men’s 35km race walk

Can’t you get 32 in freestyle if you qualify for aerials mixed team? Too bad we don’t even have any male ski jumpers too defend our legendary mixed team medal 😭😂

Quotas through the nation cup. Men's: 6 quotas: 5 quotas: 4 quotas: Women's: 6 quotas: 5 quotas: 4 quotas:

gaudium magnum, nuntio vobis: habemus Track!!! finally, the Sliding Sports have a new home in Italy; the Cortina Track is ready!!! the inaugural slides are scheduled for next Tuesday, March 25th https://www.oasport.it/2025/03/litalia-ha-una-pista-di-bob-e-slittino-lavori-finiti-a-cortina-gli-azzurri-saranno-i-primi-a-provarla/ (sorry, it's in Italian only)

As some of you pointed out, there are some alternatives to one person hosting in a "real" venue. Before @Cobi volunteered, I was thinking maybe we could use his template to collect the votes in a spreadsheet hosted in the cloud. Then 2-3 could verify validate the forms are complete (including reserves), and said persons (or another volunteers) could also help with trnasforming the votes into templates/scoreboards. I myself could research if there's a somewhat easy form to make/transform the info into GIF or dinamic templates; in any case I also volunteer to help. As @Sindo said, we should look for the bright part. Maybe this could be the start of a new stage for TISC.

Erin Brooks has qualified for the SF in the world tour stop in , beating defending world champion Simmers in the quarterfinals.

Iceland wins their first European championships medal, and it's gold - Eygló Fanndal Sturludóttir is the winner of women's 71 kg

Spring Nationals, Day #2 sleepy and somehow disappointing day in Riccione...until the last individual race of the day, when the unthinkable happened: the next big thing in Italian swimming revealed herself well earlier than expected Alessandra Mao, in fact, despite being only 14 (not even sure she already turned 14, actually), won the National title over the women's 200m freestyle in 1.58.86 given that she basically doesn't have a decent start nor turns and she's not doing any power training in the gym yet, I hope (and think) she has room to become a world star in the next few years Today's other champions: women's 50m back: Sara Curtis, 27.90 men's 50m fly: Lorenzo Gargani, 23.32 women's 100m fly: Costanza Cocconcelli, 58.04 men's 100m breastroke: Nicolò Martinenghi, 59.16 (world champ qualifying time...good to see the Olympic champion back on track, despite not in his best shape both mental and physical); in the same race, Ludovico Blu Art Viberti slept big time in the morning heats and was forced to swim in the B Final, which he won in 59.04 (but since he didn't do it in the A final, the time is not accepted as a world qualifier for now) women's 200m breaststroke: Francesca Fangio, 2.23.67 (only 7/100 of a second outside the world champs qualifying time) men's 100m back: Christian Bacico, 53.61

Spring Nationals, Day #1 men's 50m back: in Ceccon's absence, 2 youngsters dominated the field...Christian Bacico (2005) won the title and improved himself up to 24.83 Daniele Del Signore (2007) ended up in second place with 25.21 women's 800m free: always only Simona Quadarella...8.24.25 for her, just enough to win the title and earn herself the official ticket to the world champs next Summer men's 200m fly: Alberto Razzetti easily won the race in 1.55.06 (only 7/100 outside the qualifying time), but he said he's not feeling well at all and he's worried about the next days and races women's 100m breaststroke: the race of the championships in day #1. despite Benedetta Pilato gave up the final after a poor heat performance, we already have both world champs qualifiers: Anita Bottazzo won the title with a huge PB in 1.05.82, followed by Lisa Angiolini in 1.06.01. Arianna Castiglioni ended up in 3rd place and therefore she's gonna miss the world champs (at least in this race) despite a good 1.06.22 men's 400m free: Marco De Tullio easily won the race in 3.46.90. Summertime sadness (cit.) for a race that was always so successful for our Country and now it's one of the poorest women's 400m IM: Anna Pirovano won in 4.40.77, which is her PB, but also a depressing time considered that she was just a few tenths of a second outside the old NR at the 300m mark and finished almost 7 seconds shy of said record (still held by Alessia Filippi since Beijing 2008) men's 50m free: Leonardo Deplano destroyed the field, took the title home and earned the official ticket to Singapore with 21.62. all the remaining swimmers were above the 22" mark. finally, in the women's club 4*100m relay, Sara Curtis swum her new PB over the distance in the first leg, she improved by half a second up to 53.72 (and she could have gone faster, if didn't "die" in the last 5/10 meters) if she can repeat herself in the final of the individual race, this would be a qualifying time for the world champs

74,89 WORLD RECORD FOR ALEKNA IN ROUND 1

So here are the difference between 2024 and 2028 and my opinions: Aquatics In swimming the 50m backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly were added while the women's water polo tournament will now have 12 teams. Additionally, 11 men's athlete quotas were transferred to the women's side. In general, I'm okay with the 50m events and despite women's water polo having shallow depth I am happy they are now equal to the men. The IOC still wanting to keep the core sport quotas to 10,500 is a bit ridiculous, but I'll go into that at the end. While the athlete split isn't shown for the disciplines it's quite likely swimming loses 11 men and women quotas each (maybe they might take a couple from diving/marathon swimming). Archery Mixed compound team was added. I've been a big supporter for compound archery being added to the Olympics. Unfortunately the individual events were not added which I dislike. If you are going to have athletes in team event then they can also compete in the individual. I would like to imagine World Archery is slowly bringing the event in. Since no new athlete quotas were added recurve will have fewer archers competing. I imagine recurve will be a 48-52 person tournament. Athletics Mixed marathon walk relay was removed, mixed 4x100m relay was added. I feel the program has become worse with this change. Not that I felt the walk relay is important, it's not and I wish we would get the 35/50km walk, but at least it preserved some race walk. The mixed 4x100m relay adds nothing extra to the program. This will be repeated a few times, but a mixed event should not be added with the gender component unless if fundamentally changes the event. There's no need to have both a men's/women's and a mixed 4x100m relay. Basketball The 3x3 events will be a 12 team tournament. The athlete quota has increased by 32. Great move. It was ridiculous that the event only had 8 teams so the increase was much needed. Honestly, if we weren't stuck on the 10,500 athlete limit I wouldn't mind seeing 16 teams. Boxing Women saw an increase of one event, equaling that of men (7 each). The weight limits of each category was slightly adjusted. Equaling the event size between genders was expected and I'm glad they decided to increase the women's count rather than reducing the men. The women's athlete quota remains the same despite the event increase, but still remains the same as the men. Football The men's tournament was reduced to 12 teams, the women's tournament increased to 16 teams. I'm glad the women's tournament is up to 16 teams. The qualification system for Europe has been brutal and I imagine Asia will be happy too. I wished they didn't reduce the men's tournament, but the 10,500 athlete quota limit forces them to do so. Ultimately, I agree with the move as the women's tournament is more prestigious. Golf Mixed team was added. I await the chosen format, but ultimately I think it's a good idea to have the event. Gymnastics Mixed artistic team was added. What a weird event. As mentioned before since the men's and women's team remain this is a useless event that doesn't need to included. Modern pentathlon The athlete quotas has been reduced by 8 (4 men and 4 women). This was likely done to reach the 10,500 quota limit. Overall I dislike it, but it's not the end of the world. Rowing Lightweight double sculls have been removed. Coastal single sculls and coastal mixed double sculls have been added. I'm not familiar with coastal sprint canoe, but from what I've seen in videos I think it will be a nice event to have. Losing lightweight double sculls is a bit of a shame and I'm not sure I would make that trade given that coastal rowing isn't well developed yet. Shooting Mixed team skeet was removed, mixed team trap was added. The mixed team shotgun events continue to be cycled. Considering they don't use any additional quotas, I don't see why they don't just have both at the Olympics. Sport climbing The combined event was removed and replaced by separate lead and bouldering events. 8 additional athlete quotas were added. Finally the sport has its proper individual events. I still commend the strategy of going with the combined event in 2020 as a type of Trojan horse with the idea that the IOC will want to keep it. Table tennis The men's and women's team events were removed. Men's and women's doubles and mixed team were added. As a person who likes doubles table tennis I am happy with this change. To keep the athlete quota consistent mixed team is almost necessary. Tennis Mixed doubles was removed. Mixed event was added. While I wasn't a big fan of the mixed doubles event (it's barely played during the ATP/WTA calendar, I don't think we need it replaced by a mixed event. The format hasn't been revealed, but I imagine it would be similar to the Davis/BJK Cup format. My fear is if they're attempting to add the event to the second week as I imagine many players will opt-out. LA Only Sports Baseball/Softball, Cricket, Flag Football, and Lacrosse will be 6-team tournaments and Squash will have 32 athletes (16 men, 16 women). While expected, I am very disappointed that the team sports will only have six teams. You can't showcase the sport really well with such few entrants. Cricket is a great example, there are many smaller nations which play the sport, but we are likely to see only the large nations compete. Squash only having 16 athletes is also a bit small, but it's at least manageable. Final Thoughts Some good, some bad moves overall. I need to stress that the 10,500 athlete limit among core sports while increasing the number of events is not sustainable. The 2000 Olympics had around 10,600 athletes yet only had 300 events. We now have 341 core events, an increase of 14%. Even if you want to argue that there was bloat in 2000, the 2024 Olympics had 327 core events, meaning we had an increase of 4% yet no new athlete quotas. While some of these new events don't need more athletes, some of them do. Honestly at minimum the athlete quota for core events needs to be increased to 11,000 while more realistically we should be closer to 12,000. If the IOC doesn't want that many athletes then they need to remove events/sports.

Ah yes, today was the dreaded "IOC news day"... As usual there is barely anything to smile at. Men's boxing losing more weights is absurd, especially since their "gender parity agenda" is out of the window after switching the football. Swimming getting the 50s in an already bloated program was sadly inevitable. With US and AUS the next hosts, I'm surprised swimming doesn't have 100 events to begin with. All the new mixed stuff is Frankenstein as usual, especially the tennis and gymnastics. No one asks for these, even within these sports, but the IOC only care about "Let's have all the stars interact more with each other for maximum TV talk and social engagement, who cares about sporting traditions". Climbing splitting the events is a positive, though for me personally I didn't see any problem with the combined. It actually showed the true overall best climbers, while now the specialists in one event will get more chances to sneak a medal. Host sports with 6 teams are a joke and shouldn't award medals! Have them as exhibition events with a trophy etc. for the winners, but shouldn't be included in the medal table. But what do I know. And still no news on the most important thing for me - extending the Games to 3 full weeks. Things will be crammed, crammed again..

Given men's football is the one event in all of the Olympics where the best athletes aren't allowed to compete... not sure how this move is "pure wokism". The women's tournament is essentially a mini world cup, the men's tournament is a side show we tolerate because it generates ticket sales. Would be a different story, of course, if the men's event wasn't a U23 competition that isn't even within a FIFA window.

men's Trap Gold: Jean Pierre Brol Cardenas Silver: Walton Eller Bronze: William Hinton Full Results & Rankings https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/3268/results

https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/LA28/Official-Programme-of-the-Olympic-Games-Los-Angeles-2028.pdf

the Italian Spring Nationals (main selection meet for the World Champs) start on Sunday in the usual location of Riccione a few of our main swimmers won't participate (or won't be tapering because they are already qualified), among them Gregorio Paltrinieri and Thomas Ceccon, who's still training in Australia and he's likely to compete at the Australian Trials (despite he won't be able to swim the A finals, as far as I know) however, a few youngsters are expected to step up and earn themselves some attention by our NT officials (if not a place on the team) the main star of the week should be Carlos D'Ambrosio, who recently beat the old 200m freestyle short course national record held by Filippo Magnini since a very long time (2009, with the old rubber suits) among the women, lots of expectations are on Sara Curtis but, even if it seems a bit too early, take note of this name: Alessandra Mao (class of 2011) many people expect her as the true "new" Pellegrini

The national team trials to determine South Korea’s short track representatives for the Milan Olympics are currently underway. This week features three races (500m / 1000m / 1500m), followed by another three races next week (500m / 1000m / 1500m). The combined points from all six races will decide who earns a spot on the Olympic team, and a major shake-up in the men’s lineup is expected. In the first week, Rim Jong Un—winner of three gold medals at the 2025 World Junior Championships—claimed victory in the 1500m, while Shin Dongmin—also a triple gold medalist from the 2024 Junior Worlds—won the 500m. Hwang Daehon, the 2022 Olympic gold medalist in the 1500m, finished second in both races and is on track to make his return to the national team. At this rate, it seems unlikely that we’ll see familiar names like Park Jiwon or Kim Gunwoo at the Olympics.

In the last few days, two great results for South American athletics, both with the second best marks in the history of South America Evelis Aguilar from clocked 49.80 in the 400 metres, a mark very close to the continental record held by Olympic medalist and fellow Colombian Ximena Restrepo with 49.64 Manuela Rotundo from , just 20 years old, scored an impressive 64.17 in the javelin throw at a university competition in the USA. This mark would have earned her a silver medal at Paris-2024 (she did not participate). Uruguay has not won an Olympic medal since Sydney-2000 and the young Rotundo, a world junior medalist, seems like a good name to keep an eye on in the cycle.

Gold for Eliot Grondin at the Mont St Anne WC!

Sulver for Eliot Grondin at the Mont St Anne WC in men’s snowboard cross! James Savard-Ferguson also recorded his career best WC finish, advancing to the quarterfinals. 5th and 7th for Tess Critchlow and Audrey McManiman, I believe their best results of the season?

Slovakia the only country where it is possible to organize a championship in a completely different city than the one on the official titles and documents... #WrestleBratislava but only on the hotels

I expect some decency after Paris 2024 travesty. Nothing more. Paris will always be remembered (at least for many people) as lowest point of oppenings in recent history.

Come on, it's 2025! Why are we still debating the Commonwealth that ended over 200 years ago or World War I? Lighten up and enjoy some figure skating!

So all earned at least one men's quota. have the opportunity to earn 3 quotas have the opportunity to earn two quotas

The Cortina track has officially opened today, with the first athletes taking pre-homolgation runs!

Not sure if it was discussed here, but Canada is now *narrowly* in a qualifying position in the ski mounteineering mixed relay with two qualifying races left to go.

Just caught up, but today's Womens' Pursuit was absolutely the reason I fell in love with biathlon back 25 years ago. What a race!

Amazing achievement for us to cap off a remarkable winter sport season After 3 Junior World titles and a breakthrough World Cup season, everyone here knew Tervel Zamfirov is a big name for the future, but to actually end the season with a senior World Championship Gold medal is something else. I am not sure, but this could actually be our first senior WCH title in any snow sport!

Just quickly passing here to mention a chapeau bas to Fialková for her mega-jump today from 44th after the sprint to 6th in the pursuit. Kudos where kudos is due. This was simply heroic performance from Paja. Ok so that´s it. I leave.

Gold for Mikael Kingsbury in men's dual moguls at the Freestyle Ski/Snowboard World Championships!

And it's Gold!!

Bronze for Megan Oldham in women's slopestyle at the Freestyle Ski/Snowboard World Championships!

Gold for Liam Brearley in men’s slopestyle at the World Championships!

Slopestyle Men Gold- Liam Brearley (90.15) Silver- Su Yiming (85.07) Bronze- Ollie Martin (78.98) Women Gold- Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (90.15) Silver- Kokomo Murase (87.02) Bronze- Reira Iwabuchi (83.55) Both the men’s and women’s gold medalists finished with the exact same scores! Full Final Results Here

Fischnaller Gold Medal !!!!!!!!

FIFA WC2026 qualifiers are back!! African WCQ restart today without Congo, the FECOFOOT (Congolese Football Association) has been suspended due to a particularly serious situation of undue interference by third parties in the affairs of the organisation The Group E remain with only 4 teams. AFC qualifiers resuming this week, with Japan will become the first nation to come through the WC 2026, and Iraq, Iran, Korea Republic and Uzbekistan are in a strong position to secure World Cup 26 tickets. OFC fourth round will qualify directly for the WC 2026, the winner of final four (semifinals: New Caledonia vs Tahiti and New Zealand vs Fiji) and the runner-up will go to the FIFA Inter-confederation play-offs CONMEBOL will play Matchday 13 and 14 with big matches Uruguay-argentina and Brazil-Argentina. UEFA European Qualifiers begin without the groups involving teams in UEFA Nations League quarterfinals will be finalised after those ties in March. Only half of groups begin to play in March the other groupss start their campaigns in September.

HSBC SVNS Singapore 6/7 | Kallang, Singapore Men`s: 1. Fiji 2. Kenya 3. Argentina 4. Spain Women`s: 1. New Zealand 2. Australia 3. Canada 4. France Ful Results Argentina and New Zealand are the HSBC SVNS 2024-25 regular season champions in the Men`s and Women`s respectively. Next and Final Stop: Los Angeles 3-4 May. Top 8 of each gender will play for the Grand Final. Teams ranked 9-12 in each gender will play with the Top 4 in each gender of the Challenger Series final standings for the Promotion/Relegation to the 2025-26 SVNS Series. Final Standings: Men`s: 1. Argentina / 104p CHAMPIONS 2. Fiji / 96p 3. Spain / 88p 4. South Africa / 70p 5. France / 65p 6. Australia / 57p 7. New Zealand / 56p 8. Great Britain / 50p This 8 teams will play for the Grand Final in LA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This 4 teams will play for the Promotion/Relegation against the Top 4 of the Challenger Series in LA. 9. Kenya / 36p 10. Uruguay / 27p 11. Ireland / 23p 12. United States / 12p Women`s: 1. New Zealand / 116p CHAMPIONS 2. Australia / 106p 3. France / 80p 4. Canada / 72p 5. Japan / 64p 6. United States / 58p 7. Fiji / 46p 8. Great Britain / 43p This 8 teams will play for the Grand Final in LA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This 4 teams will play for the Promotion/Relegation against the Top 4 of the Challenger Series in LA. 9. Brazil / 33p 10. China / 30p 11. Ireland / 22p 12. Spain / 14p